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THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1918.

TELEGRAMS.

(Continued from Page 1)

PRESIDENT WILSON AND THE PEACE EFFORT.

THE CHINA MAIL

AMERICAN WEEKLY WAR THE TILK OF GENERAL LUDEN.

REVIEW.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.

DORF'S RESIGNATION.

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 0. There is still talk in Germany of Landendurt. atzentene resignation of Ganaml

not subservietf. They refuse to the sea, and the mutual relations Field in principle or nation their con- the Balkan States determined by ception of what is right, human, and friendly counsel along historically bonourable for them to accept. It established lines of allegiance and has been stated with a frankness, nationality, with international guar Mr. Baker, the Secretary for War, argeness of view, generosity of antees for their political and economic in his weekly review says that advices and universal human-sympathy independence, and territorial inte- seemingly confirm that the German which must challenge the admiration grity.

The Frankfurter in of the opinion Higher Command contemplates a big that the rumour is calculated to put. of every friend of mankind. They Twelfthly, the Turkish portions of offensive on the Western Front and pressure on Dr. Kaebimana at Breat call to us to say what we desire the present Ottoman Empite should will strain every fibre to attain suc-litovak. I believe the people of the United be usred secure sovereignty, but cess. He recalls the sixteen great States wish as to respond with other nationalities now under Turkish battles in Flanders in which the utter siruplicity and franknees.. It

rule should be assured security of life British were uniformly victorious and FOREIGN DOCTORS TO ASSIST. is our heartfelt desire that some and autonomous development; the the French and British Armies ac way may be found whereby we shall Dardanelles should be permanently be relied on to withstand the shock. NO CONFUSION OF COUNSEL Pileged to assist the people of open and free, under international The French success has turned the

IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO

CONGRESS

PROGRAMME, OF THE WORLD'S PEACE.

AMONG THE ALLIES,'

-

guaraplées.

Thirteenthly.

uliker

scales against the Austrians and Our mans on the Itulah Front and the invaders are now confronted with tremendous transport difficulties.

Referring to Ralestine Mr. Baker says that it is believed that a large number of fresh Turkish troops, under German supervision, has been withdrawn from Mempotamin and the Caucasus and s rashed

was being

THE WESTERN "FRONT.

THE FLAGUE IN NORTH CHINA.

PERIKO, Jan 10,

A number of foreign Doctors have proceeded to the plague area.

Traffic has been spended on tho northern portion of the Peking- Suivuan müway.

RUMOURS ABOUT FRITISH DIPLOMATIC CHANGES,

LONDON, Jan. 9.

The Timer states it understood that Lord Reading will remain Lord

remain at the Embassy at Parin. intention of appointing a successor to Sir George Buchanan and the suggestion hateMr. Austen Chamberlain is to be sppointed · to a diplomatic post is baseles

The Government has no immediate

Russia It will be our wists and purpose that the peace processes

independent WASHINGTON, Jan. 0, when began shall be absolutely open. Polish State should be erected to President Wilson, in the course of permitting thenceforth 20. seuret include the territories inhabited by au important message to Congress, understanding. "The day of con- indisputably Polish populations, with said: As repeatedly before, spokes. quest, aggrandisement and secret free and secure access to the sen and men of the Centrul Powers have again convenuta is past. We entered the international guarantees of political, indicated a desire to discuss the war in consequence of violations of ariel economie independence and ter- objects of the war and the possibili-rights which touched us to the quick ritorial integrity dies of a general pence. The Run and made our life impossibile unless

Fourteenthly, a general assotiation iam representatives at Bresthitovsk they are corrected and the world of nations must be formed under to Falestine for amuttempt to re- Chief Justice, and Lord Bertie wal presented a definite statement of the secured against their reusencs, specific covenants for the purpose of cover the lost press, and that Ger- principas on which they were will. We therefore, demand that the affording mutual guarantees of poli-mana will afford the Turks whatever ing to conclude peace with a definite work? be made fit and safe to live in.tical independence and territorial assistance is possible in un effort to programnie of the concrete applica-All peoples of the world' are in effect tion of those principles. The Central partners in this interest. Thereforetty for great and small Statea etike Jerusalem Power replying, outlined a settle the programe of the world's peste ment apparently susceptible of is our programme; numelýc liberal interpretation until the details. Firstly, open covenants of peace peoples associated against the im subsequently showed that they pupply arrived at, after which there periclists unist stand together until powed no concessions either to the shall be no private international and. We are willing to fight, be sovereignty of Russia or preferences understanding of any kind, but sail until such arrangements and to the population concerned. The diplonmoy shall always proceed caverunts are achieved. We are not Central Powers, hriatly proposed to trpkly and in the public view. jealous of German greatness und keep ittery foot of, occupied terri-

Secorlly, absolute freedom of there is nothing in this programme navigation of the seas outside torto impair it. We do not wish to tory, every province, every city, ⠀ every point of vantåge as a'

ritorial waters alike in peace and injure her or in anywise block her perman- ent addition to their territories and war except us the sens hy beegitimate influence and power. We closed wholly or partly by interna

do not wish to fight her, either with power. It is reusamble, to conjee-

tional action for enforcement fare that the general principles ef settlement first guested, originated international govenants. with the more liberal statesmen of the Central Powers-men who had

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of

President Wilson, went on to em- phasise that all Governments and

or hostile arrangements of trade, if she is willing associate her-

ENEMY ATTACK REPULSED,

LONDON, Jan. D. Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig

reporte

An enemy local attack, supported by Summenwerfer, mined a footing our trenches to the cast of Bulle-

court.

Our counter-attack restored the me and eighteen. Germans were

taken prisoners

Our aeroplanes yesterday evening boubed the Roulers-Courtrai milway

stations.

„GANADIAN?” ́SUCCESSFUL

EXPLOIT."-

FASDON, Jan. 0 Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig

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| FOR RUINED FRENCH VILLAGERS.

course of an appeal through the Press: Mr. John Galsworthy writes in the -The French Wounded Emergency Highness the Duke of Connaught, and Fund, whose president in His Royal to whose work among the military hoe pitals of France there has been so much grateful testimony

from

French doctors

and wounded. * poilus," has taken the responsibility of a ruined section in the Somme region lately evacuated by the Germans. An appeal for funds to carry foot-this-work-and-to

society

city to accept the responsibility

of the armies advance is now being made

Fained country as the same t

remlins," nothing

น but the bricks

AN OF Germans left bobind.

and

d dust that the

You sou small

all this, bet until playing amove

someone clothed than when the Germans went I believe many

Of this huge scar ou

the

werence we are tied to hesla

face of

balls;

the

self. with us, and other peace-loving farasnatiors of the work in covenants of Thirdly, the temoval as possible of all economie barriers, the justice. law, and fair dealings We establishment, of equality of trade wish her only to accept a place "of begun to feel the pressure from their conditions among all peoples consent equality among the people of the own peoples, while the details, caming to the peace, and associating for world instead of the place of mustery from the militarists possessing its maintenance."

Neither do we presume to suggest

y portion to make again a thought hut to keep what they have, Fourthly, adequate

thing out of death to give back

5ome got. The negotiations, have been given and taken that international ef her institutions, but it is neces

guarantees to her any alteration or modification reports:

sort of fature to a few hundreds of poor The energy, yesterday evening, an-souls utterly deprived. Ora can only broken off The Russians were sin armaments shall be reduced to the sary as preliminary to any intelligenstered two advancel posts to the north Each of us knows some country village: grasp it in termoS our own countryside. care and earnest.. but could not enter-lowest coasistent with domestic dealings with her that we know whom of the Ypres-Staden railway. Our let him or her think of that, without tain such proposals of conquest and safety

· tree;" without a wall standing, her spokesman speak for whether counter-attack ejected them.

with every

means of livelihood domination. The whole incident is

Do

"full of significance and perplexity. solutely impartial adjustment of all military party and men whose ereed out a raid, to the south of Lens, this rust him imagine that this goes on

Fifthly the tree open-minded, ah for the Reichstng majority or the The Canadians cessfully carried off, without beast or bird, save

and crows; a mass of rubble and With whort are, the Rushion, repre-colchial claims based on a strict is imperial domination. We have moming, capturing two machine

wire, deep holes, and unexplored sentatives dealing For whom are observance of the prificiple that inspoken now surely, in terms too cou-gu

mile after mile, village after village, county after county. Let hig fancy the representatives of the Central determining all such questions the crets to admit of doubt. An evident

the villagers be knows little shop-

folk Powers speaking for the majorities sovereignty and interests of the principle runs through-the whole proɔ-

cobbler, poses, daughters, mothers blacksmith, labourers farmers, their wives, of their respective Parliaments or for populations concerned must have gramme I have outlined. It is the minority parties, that military im. equal weight with, the equitable principle of justice to all-peoples, and perialistic minority which has so far claims of government whose title is rationalities, and their right to live. doininuted their policy of controlling to be determined.

on equal terms of liberty and safety affaim in Turkey and the Balkan. Stute?

sian territory and the settlement of ciple be made its foundation, no part President Wilson, speaking pull questions affecting Russia which of the structure of international provingly of the fact that the Brest-shall secure the beat and freeest co

justice can stand. The people of the litorsk negotiations were held with operation of the other nations of the

United States could act upon no "open doors, asked: To whom has the world in obtaining for her unbation of this principle they are ready other pincipies and to the indica world been listeping-to those repre-pered, and unembarrased opportuto devote their lives, honour and senting the spirit of the Reichstag nity for independent determination everything they posses. The mom resolution d July 9thy or to those of her own political, development and climax of this culminating and final insisting upon conquest 2, Or to both, national policy. The treatment war for human liberty has come, and unreconciled in hopeless contradic.accorded to Russia by her sister they are ready to put their own

THE GRIP OF WINTER.

www

THE GREAT EXPLOSION AT

GRIESHIEM.

Sixthly, the evacuation of all Rus- with one another. Unless this prReuters, Correspondent at Head- they were brbsistence as the day I

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tions? These are very serious, and nations in the months to come will strength, their own highest purpose

egnant questions upon the answer be the acid test of their goodwill, and their own integrity and devotion to

which depends the peace of the their comprehension of her needs test. world The Central Powers had distinguished from their unselfish Again challenged their adversaries to

sympathy...

state their objects and there was a Seventhly, Belgium, the whole

reason why we should not respond

world will agres, must be evacuated

OPINION ON THE MESSAGE.

WASHINGTON, Jan, 9. President Wilson's "decision to ad-

LONDON, Jan. 8.

quarters states the whole of the Western Front is in the grip of wintry weather and a blizzard is now raging

A letter found, on a dead German sión ut Grieshiem recently, which wus relates the detail of a great explo- followed by a huge fire which spread rapidly, causing an explosives shed

We

the children he sees daily going to school-ai killed, captive, or dispersed. bereared of each other. robbed and guined, without place to set foot or shelter from the night, stick, store, or penny left, as naked of

Lek. bias meture the old folk, At anly for care by others, living alone in a ruined house. Broken homes, broken lives, broken hearts! out there, thousands upon thousands of are hundreds of these villages homeless, hopelesa, ruined folk. W

of these poor people; that we loathe this money to prove thst we feel for the fate Baked to give e rescuing, hand, a little

the innocent and defenceless; that in abomination of, desolation wrought on true, comradeship with France we will help to fight this rein and makers desert to be blown sky high.

green again. Subscriptions should be Numbers of people were killed and sent to the hon. treasurer of the Fund,

London, SW. 1. ants in Grieshiem to flee to Frank fort.

the disaster catised many inhabit.

FRENCH BAIDA SUCCEED,

LONDON, Jan. 9. A French communiqué states In the region to the north of Seichperez, we successfully mided

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PSYCHOLOGY OF THE

GERMAN SOLDIERS.

REVELATIONS IN DIARIES AND LETTERS,

Writing after the capture of Pass" chendale, Mr Philipp Gibbe said

Sir David Risking, 64, Lowndes Square The psychology of the German troops

BURYIYES.

France has written a description of thrilling adventure during the fighting in landesa. After two days in spell-bales

against us, as peaz discomitefzora prisoners and from: | their diaries and letters, is curiously-ioteresting specially in view of Germark docene disorders

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Iit not enough that hours here in fact as soon as the departure of the draft was announced, men not forming. part of the draft should be preventas from going into the town by pickets Every

fire Jards in No we must also endure the

every direction { of being escorted to the

to the station

ion by

Do not beautiful, lying stories of our German papers place our tire lads fight and destroy the enemy

in field-grey, who for loveof Fatherland totally also light when such thin

this happen! A willing, sacrifice,

STRIPPED BY SHELL, AN OFFICER attracting the attention of how to That how they go up to the Front

their dramatic sensation. They do not

the agony of the German soldiers drafts and from other letters and diaries A British officer now la hospital on this kide alga Magé, por: insïè tdremel IN may see yohat happens to them, with -

pint idey go into the line when endare more gladly the borror of the sweep of shell freich we ding over they saw you far Here i

the their fines

diary of Bar mud holes, nor give

an infantry N.Loote in totience, da so fah tugees, or these quater stack forday Telieved by regiment. On par way back we What regimental not retain

We ́aik or Howa It is bear reading experien One man of the Sturmtr too dr His officer hre enare abuse He Stik-rafa the alicer pushes him ser He slip into a shelf how and From another diary simil

he and five machine-ginners were They do BOC

and purpose before the world, making common with other free nations crowded Chamber and was liberally the enemy's lines, penetrating on about food, while working through a bles of the cover the bittem no meet fresh troops may do act,

with 150 prisoners.

Man

"the messed syuy the

with the utmost curdour. Again and and restored without any attempt to dress Congress came suddenly. The again' we have laid our whole thought limit the sovereignty she enjoys in message profoundly impressed a clear our definitive terms of "settle No other single act will serve as 'this Punctuated by applause. There was front of 1500 metres where shelters auried by a teary shell Three of the sullen revolt in the spirit of vent massei ment. Mr. Lloyd George has spoken will serve to restore confidence among great demonstration, when Presi-were destroyed the troops returning and min the policer set off to find they are still planged, nor the despair with admirable candour and spiritnations in the laws which they them dent Wilson declared that France for the people and Government of selves determined for the governmust have reparation as regards Great Britain. There is no confusionment of their relations with one Alsace and Lorraine. of counsel among the adversaries of another. Without this healing act the Congressional leaders that the It is the consensus of opinion of the Central Powers, no uncertainty the whole structure and validity of weesage will favourably influence the principle, o vagueness of detail international law is forever impaired. Russian situation while endorsing The only secrecy, the only lack bi

Eighthly, all French territory Lloyd George's peace terms. In connection with the loss of the the bearut dressing statisk-four miles the should be freed and invaded portions The mesango le described as President Prep Pritish destroyers during toof eight sets of stretcher-bearers

of

restored, and the wrong done to Wilson's greatest State paper. France by Prussia in 1871 in the

EFFORT,

Farise frankness, the only failure make a definitive statement of jects lies with the Central Powers

ques of life and death, heng upon matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has A MAXIMUM ENEMY OFFENSIVE

definitions. No statesman unsettled the peace of the world for Has the least conception of his nearly fifty year, should be nighted pasibility mught to soatinite this so that peace may he once more al, appalling outpouring of mode secure in the interests of all --

and treasure unless he

Ninably, the readjustment of the

U that the objects of this frontiers of Italy abould be effected perifice are part and parcel of along clearly recognisable lines

y life of society and that the for whom they are speaking

pem right and

mperative there was no

tung voice dorna

ality

Tenthly, the peoples of Austria- Hungary, whose place anong nations safe-guarded and

the opport

A GERMAN OFFICER'S

STATEMENT STORI

THE TORPEDOED. BRITISH DESTROYERS

bang wajahny AN HEROIC RESCUE.

LONDON, JAI.

weru kill but with, & corporal of men against all this horror in which company headquarter While; strug-- which is cating at the heart of Gerulang gling along, at

to their wrists in | because of the monstrous losses, pr

gas masks straped

to the officer chest. TRAGIC IRONY. ***

A tragie irony in the lettern of these and killed the corporal

men. In words written, Lore death pr Eventually after being four days in

shell holes, water without momenty skep or ESL explore in their liber the officer, by now the sole survivor euth which is hidden oo

billets · bebind the lines, the found his company, but his foot became. so bad that he had to oaks his way to stalets

some idea sa, to the state of the

recent Soldiers,

fog, off the Dutch coast on the night-that is 10 men, he says three hoursemen

Retion. It to carry me down Each pair of men

drafts to fill the gape at the of December 22.28, and which were

carried me. balf a mile and. Were iben FTOR? reported to have been either for relieved by another petir That ill. The first battalion is to supply pedoed or wined, it transpires that round toe roen are detailed, same with

of 00 men conduct moster his feet had been dressed he they bad fulfilled, successfully, m

"rifles to Tescort the drafts, others, to carried to an automobile ambulances act as pileata In the afternoon qur important duties. When the first was

men are ready and wai ene was his, below the water noen to think that tos lane toy trobbles were orez, pri tem." he adds,

their comrader of the first but no, yo had bot send the other destroyers risk PARIS, Jan. 9.

mpany, which sy fish German officer-taken prisoner and sub armes, yesterday declared that the internal respor situation in Germany has compe the High Command to rak a sec

Verdun and a Gisastrous pe200

oficnsive ellorta West

's shall hit the ambulance

thing I remember was misidio of the so-called boots; socks or trots ing allround

each Lonz

dra

After the ma

lisvė reporte

diffent67ZETW

order to stand for their packs, the

of, the order of thei

B

nd entrant they refu

The lieutenant

in addit

Berly

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